Antonioni

LAURA RASCAROLI?is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at University College Cork. She is the author of The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (2009) and the co-author (with Ewa Mazierska) of From Moscow to Madrid: European Cities, Postmodern Cinema (2003), The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries (2004), and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (2006). She is also the co-editor (with Patrick O'Donovan) of The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations (2010). JOHN DAVID RHODES is ?is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (2007) and Meshes of the Afternoon (2011), and the co-editor (with Brian Price) of On Michael Haneke (2010), and (with Elena Gorfinkel) of Taking Place: Location and Moving Image (2011). He is a founding co-editor of the journal World Picture.

• Interstitial, Pretentious, Alienated, Dead: Antonioni at 100/Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes.- Modernities.- Identification of a City: Antonioni and Rome, 1940-1962/Jacopo Benci.- Modernity, Put into Form: Blow-Up, Objectuality, 1960s Antonioni/Laura Rascaroli.- Revisiting Zabriskie Point/Angelo Restivo.- Reporter, Soldier, Detective, Spy: Watching The Passenger/Robert S. C. Gordon.- Aesthetics.- 'Making Love on the Shores of the River Po': Antonioni's Documentaries/Leonardo Quaresima.- On L'avventura and the picturesque/Rosalind Galt.- Quasi: Antonioni and Participation in Art/Alexander García Düttmann.- Face, Body, Voice, Movement: Antonioni and Actors/David Forgacs.- Medium Specifics.- Blow-up and the Plurality of Photography/Matilde Nardelli.- Ten Footnotes To A Mystery/Francesco Casetti.- Identification of a Medium: Identificazione di una donna and the Rise of Commercial Television in Italy/Michael Siegel.- Ecologies.- Antonioni's Waste Management/Karl Schoonover.- Antonioni's Cinematic Poetics of Climate Change/Karen Pinkus.- Antonioni and the Development of Style/John David Rhodes.- Index.

Essential reading for those who want to delve into the work of one of the authors constantly referred to as pivotal in art cinema.